Make word meanings explicit and clear. Develop student-friendly explanations or create instructional contexts for discussing word meanings. Get Students actively involved with thinking about and using the meaning right away.
For a full understanding and spontaneous, appropriate use of new words develops gradually, but a strong start is essential to allowing those processes to occur.
What is most helpful in understanding the definition? What is the most confusing?
What difficulties might the definitions pose to the learner?
How might you categorize the words so their meanings are specific?
What everyday language might you use to craft explanations?
Chapter Assignment:
You will use what you have learned in this chapter to develop some ways to introduce words you will teach.
Select words from the story or text your students will be working on this week or take the words you created from the last chapter.
Create a student-friendly explanation for each word by -
Thinking about what specific elements make the word different from other words.
Using everyday language.
Develop instructional contexts for half of the words. That is, write sentences and develop questions that will support students in deriving the meaning of those words.
Create some activities that will engage students in dealing with the word's meaning.
Implement the lesson in your classroom.
With the group, share the words and activities you created and implemented in your classroom.
Your Original Post: Please post a message sharing how your quest with the tier two words went, what thoughts you had on the process and how you may use this in other subject areas. What challenges if any did you encounter in your process? Use the questions above to help with your original post.
Your Response to Others: Please read and reply to your colleagues' posts. You do not need to reply to everyone's but must respond to at least two other postings.
Make word meanings explicit and clear. Develop student-friendly explanations or create instructional contexts for discussing word meanings. Get Students actively involved with thinking about and using the meaning right away.
For a full understanding and spontaneous, appropriate use of new words develops gradually, but a strong start is essential to allowing those processes to occur.
What is most helpful in understanding the definition? What is the most confusing?
What difficulties might the definitions pose to the learner?
How might you categorize the words so their meanings are specific?
What everyday language might you use to craft explanations?
Chapter Assignment:
You will use what you have learned in this chapter to develop some ways to introduce words you will teach.
Your Original Post: Please post a message sharing how your quest with the tier two words went, what thoughts you had on the process and how you may use this in other subject areas. What challenges if any did you encounter in your process? Use the questions above to help with your original post.
Your Response to Others: Please read and reply to your colleagues' posts. You do not need to reply to everyone's but must respond to at least two other postings.